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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Repair of side ligament of a finger or knuckle joint

CPT 26540the billing code this page is about

Surgery to repair a torn side (collateral) ligament of a knuckle or finger joint.

Hospitals typically charge $3,234 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 868 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,302. Most fall between $1,433 and $6,342 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
868
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 868 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,012$1,549$3,234$5,486$9,059

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,012 vs $9,059).

How the prices are spread

$717 – $961: 36 hospitals$717$961 – $1,290: 73 hospitals$1,290 – $1,731: 119 hospitals$1,290$1,731 – $2,323: 61 hospitals$2,323 – $3,116: 81 hospitals$2,323$3,116 – $4,182: 142 hospitals$4,182 – $5,611: 97 hospitals$4,182$5,611 – $7,528: 78 hospitals$7,528 – $10,102: 64 hospitals$7,528$10,102 – $13,554: 31 hospitals$10,102median $3,234price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (782 of 868 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$717$96136
$961$1,29073
$1,290$1,731119
$1,731$2,32361
$2,323$3,11681
$3,116$4,182142
$4,182$5,61197
$5,611$7,52878
$7,528$10,10264
$10,102$13,55431

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,234
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.97×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,234.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,665 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,665New Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,768 across 26 hospitalsWA$2,768Idaho: median $4,841 across 17 hospitalsID$4,841Montana: median $1,978 across 12 hospitalsMT$1,978North Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,696 across 29 hospitalsMN$3,696Illinois: median $1,668 across 28 hospitalsIL$1,668Wisconsin: median $3,803 across 39 hospitalsWI$3,803Michigan: median $1,549 across 38 hospitalsMI$1,549New York: median $3,840 across 61 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $4,209 across 17 hospitalsMA$4,209Oregon: median $2,370 across 24 hospitalsOR$2,370Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,651 across 29 hospitalsIA$1,651Indiana: median $1,241 across 15 hospitalsIN$1,241Ohio: median $3,099 across 26 hospitalsOH$3,099Pennsylvania: median $1,567 across 32 hospitalsPA$1,567New Jersey: median $4,330 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,308 across 80 hospitalsCA$4,308Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,001 across 16 hospitalsCO$3,001Nebraska: median $1,890 across 16 hospitalsNE$1,890Missouri: median $3,261 across 28 hospitalsMO$3,261Kentucky: median $1,039 across 10 hospitalsKY$1,039West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,074 across 12 hospitalsKS$1,074Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,142 across 10 hospitalsTN$1,142North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $6,339 across 21 hospitalsSC$6,339Oklahoma: median $1,465 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,465Louisiana: median $1,966 across 18 hospitalsLA$1,966Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,841 across 13 hospitalsAL$3,841Georgia: median $8,241 across 12 hospitalsGA$8,241Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,330 across 55 hospitalsTX$3,330Florida: median $9,239 across 13 hospitalsFL$9,239
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,234. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL13$9,239+186%$3,257 – $9,626
Georgia GA12$8,241+155%$3,265 – $8,241
South Carolina SC21$6,339+96%$3,536 – $8,835
Idaho ID17$4,841+50%$1,416 – $6,877
New Jersey NJ33$4,330+34%$3,591 – $5,339
California CA80$4,308+33%$1,472 – $9,050
Massachusetts MA17$4,209+30%$2,431 – $10,950
Alabama AL13$3,841+19%$1,811 – $8,171
New York NY61$3,840+19%$1,219 – $4,595
Wisconsin WI39$3,803+18%$2,676 – $5,657
Minnesota MN29$3,696+14%$1,516 – $4,390
Texas TX55$3,330+3%$3,234 – $4,193
Missouri MO28$3,261+1%$992 – $5,263
Ohio OH26$3,099−4%$1,598 – $11,724
Colorado CO16$3,001−7%$1,579 – $8,676
Washington WA26$2,768−14%$1,593 – $5,758
Oregon OR24$2,370−27%$1,290 – $7,382
Montana MT12$1,978−39%$1,168 – $4,108
Louisiana LA18$1,966−39%$1,397 – $3,518
Nebraska NE16$1,890−42%$1,130 – $3,397
Illinois IL28$1,668−48%$1,005 – $6,156
Vermont VT10$1,665−49%$919 – $1,820
Iowa IA29$1,651−49%$1,328 – $1,811
Pennsylvania PA32$1,567−52%$448 – $6,114
Michigan MI38$1,549−52%$1,265 – $4,499
Oklahoma OK14$1,465−55%$1,465 – $6,612
Indiana IN15$1,241−62%$836 – $6,496
Tennessee TN10$1,142−65%$613 – $4,545
Kansas KS12$1,074−67%$686 – $4,026
Kentucky KY10$1,039−68%$705 – $1,275
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $3,234.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care670$3,559$1,472 – $7,007
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access179$1,954$1,176 – $3,964
Ownership
For-profit99$4,026$1,978 – $11,198
Government134$1,938$1,193 – $4,792
Non-profit635$3,330$1,465 – $6,283
System affiliation
Part of a system676$3,536$1,472 – $6,730
Independent192$2,174$1,221 – $5,299

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,779
Median cash price$3,234
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

515 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,896 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,948; most fall between $1,193 and $6,114.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 515 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$836$1,296$2,896$5,044$8,685

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($836 vs $8,685).

Of the 558 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 515 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

868 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 957 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted868
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code957

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Fix Collat Lig,MC-P Jt,I-P Jt.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Repair of side ligament of a finger or knuckle joint (CPT 26540) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26540-repair-of-side-ligament-of-a-finger-or-knuckle-joint